Table 23. Average base salary and earnings from salary supplements during the current school year for regular full-time private school teachers, by affiliation stratum: 2003–04

Affiliation stratum

Average academic year base teaching salary of regular full-time teachers

Salary Supplements

Extracurricular activities in same school

Other school sources (merit pay bonus, state supplement, other)

Job outside the school

Percent

Average amount

Percent

Average amount

Percent

Average amount

All private schools

$31,700

23.1

$2,400

6.0

$1,800

20.4

$5,400

Catholic- Parochial

30,200

18.3

1,900

3.1

1,700

17.1

4,600

Catholic- Diocesan

31,600

28.7

2,300

5.9

2,800

21.2

5,400

Catholic- Private

37,300

49.5

2,300

7.3

1,400

!

26.6

4,900

Amish

11,200

4.8

!

2,400

1.6

!

5,100

16.9

!

3,000

Assembly of God

23,300

14.5

2,700

7.3

600

!

26.9

8,800

Baptist

20,100

18.1

3,500

7.1

900

!

22.0

4,800

Episcopal

38,100

27.2

1,600

10.1

2,400

!

24.4

5,700

Jewish

35,800

14.2

4,100

5.3

1,400

26.4

11,200

Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod

29,600

28.9

1,600

5.3

!

1,800

14.7

2,700

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

31,500

9.4

4,400

0.7

!

2,000

10.0

2,300

Mennonite

19,900

16.2

!

2,000

3.8

!

1,100

17.9

!

2,700

!

Pentecostal

18,500

7.4

!

1,900

3.5

!

1,900

!

21.6

4,900

!

Seventh-Day Adventist

36,700

4.8

1,200

2.6

!

1,100

!

13.7

1,600

Other Religious

25,800

18.1

2,600

5.6

2,000

17.3

6,200

Nonsectarian- Regular

38,300

27.6

2,700

8.0

1,200

21.5

5,000

Nonsectarian- Special Emphasis

34,400

16.4

1,900

6.8

3,200

22.3

5,700

Nonsectarian- Special Education

34,100

14.7

1,900

7.5

1,400

21.4

4,200

! Interpret data with caution. The standard error for this estimate is equal to 50 percent or more of the estimate's value.

NOTE: A regular full-time teacher is any teacher whose primary position in a school is not an itinerant teacher, a long-term substitute, a short-term substitute, a student teacher, a teacher aide, an administrator, a library media specialist or librarian, another type of professional staff (e.g., counselor, curriculum coordinator, social worker) or support staff (e.g., secretary), or a part-time teacher.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey, Private School Teacher Data File, 2003–04.